On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:27:40 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

On 27/10/09 01:23, Frank Erskine wrote:

What's the alleged advantage of an automated checkout? Clearly it
does away with a humanoid (although they still need to be such around
for, say, alcohol purchases). In RL they seem to be much slower than a
checkout manned by real people.

What they need is faster humans, such as the ones in Aldi, who are
equipped with tills designed to be fast, rather than pretty.

Or Waitrose, where there are actual human beings of some intelligence on
the tills.
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